Barbados Open Water Festival… Oct 27!!!

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Hi all,

So here is one perk for being a LOSTie… you now have an open invitation from my buddy, Zary Evelyn, in Barbados, to stop by for a swim… or a beer or rum!  Check out the email he sent below… oh ya… and he’s promoting the second “Barbados Open Water Festival” on Oct 27!  Tempting as always… and one of these days I’ll be taking him up on it.  The rum for sure… and maybe a dip too!  Thanks Zary!

Cheers,

Rob

Barbados Swim Festival, Oct 27, 2013

Hi Rob and all LOST members,

The Open Water Swimmers in Barbados have really been inspired by your group. I developed the ‘Barbados Open Water Festival’ to bring some of the excitement to Barbados.

I hope to one day welcome some of you to Barbados to participate in our event, the next one is October 27th (see attached flyer) and we will have one annually from 2014, probably in November.

This is an open invitation to all LOST members to contact me if you are ever in Barbados and wish to swim with us in our warm ocean. Groups of us swim almost daily, year round. If not a swim maybe a couple of beers or a rum.

More info. on our website www.swimbarbadosvacations.com

Peace & Love,

Zary

Zary Evelyn 
Tel: 1-246-437-2121
E-mail: [email protected]
 
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I founded LOST Swimming because I like open water swimming and would like to see it grow and thrive in Lake Ontario. I started as a competitive swimmer as a kid and ended up getting as far as a silver medal at Nationals and going to the Olympic Trials in 1988. But I retired after that, I was sick of swimming. So I got into running marathons and have run over 35 to date, as well as a few ultra marathons, including the Marathon des Sables (7 day, ultra across the Sahara Desert). I also kind of fell into triathlons and have done a handful of Ironman tri's too. This gradually got me back in the water and in 2006 I took the plunge and attempted swimming the English Channel. I didn't quite make it across, but the circle was now complete and after 17 years I was a swimmer again! Although I still do plenty of pool swimming, I now much prefer open water swimming and like to say that open water swimming is to pool swimming, what trail running is to treadmill running! As a result I hope to encourage more people to join me for a dip in Lake Ontario as often as we can!